544 BC

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Year of the Fire Snake丁巳(at the beginning of Fire Dragon丙辰)

• Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

• In the Babylonian calendar, the Babylonian New Year the first Nisannu falls on the 22 - 23rd March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 5th - 6th April and the first Tašritu on the 15th - 16th September.

Born

• Around 544 BC: Sunzi, Chinese General, military strategist and philosopher ( † about 496 BC)

Died

• The traditional or uncorrected Buddhist tradition, the potential of the death of Siddhartha Gautama, begins the traditional Buddhist calendar.

Comments

• Year ( 6th century BC)
• 544 BC